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The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic - 3 views
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est Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You Added by Jeff Dunn on 2010-07-08 1K+If you’re not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That’s because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms. The Best of the Best You can view the live stream of #edchat here and see what people are saying at the hashtag #chickenweb2tools here. We scoured hundreds of responses and have come up with the following list. The following tools have not been verified and are simply based on the number of times each was mentioned on Twitter during this hashtag discussion. Made at Tagxedo - it's in this list! The List
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Wordle - Create word clouds Zooburst - Create 3D books Glogster - Create posters Image Chef - Create posters Picnik - Edit your photos and add special effects BeFunky - Edit your photos and add special effects Storybird - Create collaborative stories Dipity - Create your own timelines Voki - Create a character, and add voice Photovisi - Quickly upload your photos and create collages BigHugeLabs - Use your photos to create puzzles, posters, magazine covers, CD covers, slideshows, etc. Toondoo - Create comic strips Zimmer Twins - Create an animated movie Blabberize - Create talking pictures JibJab - Create eCards and pictures with your photos Fun Face Cam! - Take funny photos with your webcam
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Wordle - Create word clouds Zooburst - Create 3D books Glogster - Create posters Image Chef - Create posters Picnik - Edit your photos and add special effects BeFunky - Edit your photos and add special effects Storybird - Create collaborative stories Dipity - Create your own timelines Voki - Create a character, and add voice Photovisi - Quickly upload your photos and create collages BigHugeLabs - Use your photos to create puzzles, posters, magazine covers, CD covers, slideshows, etc. Toondoo - Create comic strips Zimmer Twins - Create an animated movie Blabberize - Create talking pictures JibJab - Create eCards and pictures with your photos Fun Face Cam! - Take funny photos with your webcam
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Wordle - Create word clouds Zooburst - Create 3D books Glogster - Create posters Image Chef - Create posters Picnik - Edit your photos and add special effects BeFunky - Edit your photos and add special effects Storybird - Create collaborative stories Dipity - Create your own timelines Voki - Create a character, and add voice Photovisi - Quickly upload your photos and create collages BigHugeLabs - Use your photos to create puzzles, posters, magazine covers, CD covers, slideshows, etc. Toondoo - Create comic strips Zimmer Twins - Create an animated movie Blabberize - Create talking pictures JibJab - Create eCards and pictures with your photos Fun Face Cam! - Take funny photos with your webcam
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Wordle - Create word clouds Zooburst - Create 3D books Glogster - Create posters Image Chef - Create posters Picnik - Edit your photos and add special effects BeFunky - Edit your photos and add special effects Storybird - Create collaborative stories Dipity - Create your own timelines Voki - Create a character, and add voice Photovisi - Quickly upload your photos and create collages BigHugeLabs - Use your photos to create puzzles, posters, magazine covers, CD covers, slideshows, etc. Toondoo - Create comic strips Zimmer Twins - Create an animated movie Blabberize - Create talking pictures JibJab - Create eCards and pictures with your photos Fun Face Cam! - Take funny photos with your webcam
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"Wordle - Create word clouds Zooburst - Create 3D books Glogster - Create posters Image Chef - Create posters Picnik - Edit your photos and add special effects BeFunky - Edit your photos and add special effects Storybird - Create collaborative stories Dipity - Create your own timelines Voki - Create a character, and add voice Photovisi - Quickly upload your photos and create collages BigHugeLabs - Use your photos to create puzzles, posters, magazine covers, CD covers, slideshows, etc. Toondoo - Create comic strips Zimmer Twins - Create an animated movie Blabberize - Create talking pictures JibJab - Create eCards and pictures with your photos Fun Face Cam! - Take funny photos with your webcam"
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Presentation Tools Break out of the box, beyond basic slides and bullet points. Upload, create, edit and share creative presentations—anytime, anywhere.
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Video Tools Lights, camera, (inter)action! Web 2.0 makes it easier than ever to integrate video into shared projects and presentations.
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New Web 2.0 tools are published every week and cover many of the categories above. Here is a taste of the "Best of the Rest."
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The new version of the Google Wallet app supports all your credit and debit cards. Carry them with you on your phone or computer. Shop faster, smarter and safer, in-store and online.
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Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. By increasing what was already possible in "Web 1.0", they provide the user with more user-interface, software and storage facilities, all through their browser. This has been called "network as platform" computing.[2] Major features of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, user created web sites, self-publishing platforms, tagging, and social bookmarking. Users can provide the data that is on a Web 2.0 site and exercise some control over that data.[2][15] These sites may have an "architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it.[1][2] Some scholars have put forth cloud computing as an example of Web 2.0 because cloud computing is simply an implication of computing on the Internet.[16] The concept of Web-as-participation-platform captures many of these characteristics. Bart Decrem, a founder and former CEO of Flock, calls Web 2.0 the "participatory Web"[17] and regards the Web-as-information-source as Web 1.0. Web 2.0 offers all users the same freedom to contribute. While this opens the possibility for serious debate and collaboration, it also increases the incidence of "spamming" and "trolling" by unscrupulous or misanthropic users. The impossibility of excluding group members who don’t contribute to the provision of goods from sharing profits gives rise to the possibility that serious members will prefer to withhold their contribution of effort and free ride on the contribution of others.[18] This requires what is sometimes called radical trust by the management of the website. According to Best,[19] the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Further characteristics, such as openness, freedom[20] and collective intelligence[21] by way of user participation, can also be viewed as essential attributes of Web 2.0.
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The client-side (web browser) technologies used in Web 2.0 development include Ajax and JavaScript frameworks such as YUI Library, Dojo Toolkit, MooTools, jQuery and Prototype JavaScript Framework. Ajax programming uses JavaScript to upload and download new data from the web server without undergoing a full page reload. To allow users to continue to interact with the page, communications such as data requests going to the server are separated from data coming back to the page (asynchronously). Otherwise, the user would have to routinely wait for the data to come back before they can do anything else on that page, just as a user has to wait for a page to complete the reload. This also increases overall performance of the site, as the sending of requests can complete quicker independent of blocking and queueing required to send data back to the client.
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101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools | OEDb - 1 views
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Collaboration Part of teaching is collaboration. Teachers need to communicate with peers, administrators, and students. The tools listed below - some free and some for a cost - will help you stay on top of your projects with ease through open channels for collaboration.
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Even though cloud print is just a beta program, it can still be used from nearly any device. If you pair it with Google Drive, you can access any files and print them from anywhere. If you need to print something for a meeting you can send it and it will be waiting for you when you get home, saving lots of time.
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Google Cloud Print is a new technology that connects your printers to the web. Using Google Cloud Print, you can make your home and work printers available to you and anyone you choose, from the applications you use every day.
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dotSUB is especially useful for foreign language teachers. Use it to watch videos with subtitles in the target language, or upload your own video and create your own subtitles.
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SchoolTube is a moderated video sharing website for K-12 students and teachers. Find videos on everything from anime to zoology. The design of the website is more modern than TeacherTube, which a lot of students appreciate.
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85. Convert pdf to word This nifty website allows you to turn static PDF pages into editable Microsoft Word documents. 86. Online Stopwatch Online Stopwatch is a web-based stopwatch that is easy to display on an interactive whiteboard and can count up or down. Use it for timed exams, essays, and standardized tests. 87. Hootsuite If you use social media to communicate with your students about homework assignment due dates, projects, etc., then you should give Hootsuite a try. Use it to schedule message reminders ahead of time so that you don’t risk forgetting, too. 88. Microsoft Worldwide Telescope Microsoft Worldwide Telescope allows your computer to act as a virtual telescope by bringing together images from the most advanced telescopes around the world. It’s great for science teachers who are doing a lesson on Astronomy, or even English and History teachers who are discussing ancient Greek and Roman gods.
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89. Poll Daddy With a free account, you can create online surveys and quizzes with up to 10 questions. However, you only get 200 responses a month, so it’s not something you can use every day. Your students can respond via your website, email, Facebook, iPad and Twitter. Also, the free account comes with some basic reports so that you can quickly see how well your class understands the topic. 90. Zoomerang Use Zoomerang to create an unlimited number of online surveys and polls that can be answered via email, Facebook, Twitter or your website. Quizzes with up to 10 questions and 100 responses are free. 91. Disapainted Animate basic web-based paint drawings with Disapainted. It’s a cool way to give life to a simple concept and, since it’s online, it’s even easier to project onto your interactive whiteboard. 92. Grammarly Share Grammarly with your students because it’s a user friendly way to improve a paper. Simply copy and paste text into the box and click “check text.” Within 30 seconds, it provides a detailed analysis that includes 150 different grammar rules, plagiarism, word choice and more. The only downside is that Grammarly is a premium service; however, you can sign up for a free sevenday trial. 93. Live Binders Live Binders is a cool online storage and organization tool. You can use it to create tabs for your important documents. 94. Cueprompter A lot of students have a hard time giving class presentations, but Cueprompter helps to relieve some of the nerves. Copy and paste your script into the box and it displays just like a real teleprompter. Plus, it’s free to use. 95. Twiddla Twiddla is a web-conferencing service that is great for helping students out after school. You can mark up graphics and websites, use it to brainstorm and more. It even has a few other nifty features that are free, including voice chat.
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96. YouSendIt YouSendIt is an online service that allows you to upload and send large files via email. Use it to send documents to colleagues. 97. Socrative This web 2.0 tool uses cell phones and/or laptops to gather feedback from students. You can post as many questions as you’d like, which is nice if you have several classes. 98. Memplai Create videos in collaboration with your social network. The online video editing tools are useful if you don’t already have video editing software on your computer. 99. Wordle Create beautiful word clouds from text that you provide. Like Tagxedo, it gives prominence to words that appear most frequently. You can save, print and share your creation. 100. Zotero Zotero is a neat tool that helps you collect, organize, cite and share research that you have done. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages and more. It indexes the full-text content of your library, allowing you to quickly find what you’re looking for. 101. GoEd Online So, I’ll end the list with a shameless bit of self-promotion. Cut me some slack, I spent a lot of time on this post! There’s no other website in the world where teachers can rent streaming educational videos or download eBooks, PowerPoint presentations and interactive games all in one place. Do me a favor and check it out.
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Many teachers create a class Twitter account and use it as a way for students to contact them with questions about homework, due dates, and exams. It’s a quick alternative to writing out an entire email and most students have Twitter apps on their phones.
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Edmodo is a social network that you set up for your class. It looks like, feels like and smells like Facebook; however, it employs many safety precautions that keep students on task. Students cannot have private chats with each other, invite anyone to the class group or make private posts. It’s great because you can use it as a resource to answer questions and stay connected with your students outside
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I chose to include each site based on several factors: a) Functionality (i.e. did it work?) b) Ease of use c) Applications in education (could a teacher actually use it for something?) d) Compatibility with popular educational technology and digital teaching materials
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VoiceThread’s group conversations are stored and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. It allows you to create multimedia slideshows with images, videos and documents. Others can view the slides and then leave text, audio or video comments.
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You keep the rights to everything you upload and you can determine the privacy settings for each file
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Screencast makes it easy to share and embed your media. Screencast also works seamlessly with TechSmith’s screen recording Camtasia software.
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What is Web 2.0? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary - 0 views
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Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on serving Web applications to users. Other improved functionality of Web 2.0 includes open communication with an emphasis on Web-based communities of users, and more open sharing of information. Over time Web 2.0 has been used more as a marketing term than a computer-science-based term. Blogs, wikis, and Web services are all seen as components of Web 2.0.
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Gives you personal opinions on 100 different web 2.0 tools and peoples experiences with them.
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Personal opinions of certain web tools can be helpful, but also can make you shy away from a tool that the person may not like because they don't know how to use it. It is most likely better to try it for yourself.
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